SATED BY SCIENCE.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 570, 17 April 1876, Page 3

SATED BY SCIENCE.

(Nnr York San.) After dinner the hoarders gathered in the parlor' and told me of their experiences. Magruder, who is by big odds the greatest talker in the house, took about half an hour to tell the following story :— ‘ At a house where I was living last year, in Thirty-ninth street, there was a boarder who excited great curiosity. He came from Egypt, and his name was Wenyxter. One morning when we were standing on the back porch, he took a three-cornered seed from his pocket, and thrust it into a flower pot on the rail. In less than five minutes it had sprouted about six feet high, a stalk like a sunflower. One of the boarders hung his hat on it for a jest. He turned a moment to call attention to the fex%and when hcfaced about again the hat was beyond his reach ; the stalk had grown six feet in about as many seconds. It was still grow ing when the boarders 'went downtown, and when they came back to dinner, they saw the stalk up above the roof of the house with several twists around the chimney, and sticking up above it like a lightning rod, with tlxc rash man’s hat still on the end. ’ ‘With one exception,’ said Mr Maguflia, looking hard at Magruder ‘ the biggest liar 1 ever knew lived in the same house with me once in Thirty-eight street. He came from Abyssinia, and his name was Glgyxter. And I may add that, present company always excepted, he was the longest-winded man 1 ever knew. Talk ? He would talk by the hour .and bore the boarders, and after he had driven two men crazy the landlady secluded him somewhat by making him take Ixi meals alone at a separate table. But he would keep up his clatter, lighting on people in the halls and in their rooms, and when he had exhausted everybody he would go to his room and talk to himself. One night the boarding ho us. was binned down. Glgyxter lost his life, and in saving two ladies -who roomed on the top floor L got the scar which you see here. [Magufiiu brushed the hair oil bis forehead, revealing a slight scratch. J Suspicion Cel on a poor servant who had been discharged the day before, and ho was locked up in tin Tombs on circumstantial evidence that looked dead against him. But after tlu inquest, enlightened by the testimony of those who roomed next to Glgyxter, that he had been heard talking rapidly for an lion; before the fire broke out, the surgeons again examined the Abyssinian’s remains, and proved beyond a doubt the innocence of tin servant by showing conclusively that Glgyx ter’s continuous talking had made so mud friction in his jaws that it set his head afire the flames communicated to the room, tin house went down and Glgyxter went up, beyond all doubt the first recorded case of the man who was talked to death.’ ‘ Magufiiu, said Magruder, soothingly laying his hand 01 lus friend’s head, ‘ I wouldn’t talk any inert just now if I were you. Your head is quid hot already.’